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Motel Santa Cruz

2.0 star property
Motel near Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz

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Room, 2 Queen Beds, Non Smoking

Reviews

5.0 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Pet friendly
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant
  • Air conditioning
  • Laundry

Explore the area

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370 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
  • Place, Ocean Street
    ‪1 min walk‬
  • Place, Pacific Avenue
    ‪10 min walk‬
  • Place, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
    ‪11 min walk‬
  • Airport, San Jose, CA (SJC-Norman Y. Mineta San Jose Intl.)
    ‪58 min drive‬

Room options

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Room, 1 King Bed, Non Smoking

Room, 1 King Bed, Non Smoking

  • 20 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Room, 2 Queen Beds, Non Smoking

Room, 2 Queen Beds, Non Smoking

  • 27 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Queen Beds

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Room, 2 Double Beds, Non Smoking

Room, 2 Double Beds, Non Smoking

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Double Beds

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Room, 1 King Bed, Smoking

Room, 1 King Bed, Smoking

  • 20 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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About the area

Santa Cruz

Heart of Santa Cruz.Your stay at this Westside Santa Cruz motel places you within 3 miles (5 km) of Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Monterey Bay. Ocean Street and Mimi De Marta Dog Park are also within half a mile (1 km).
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What's nearby

  • Ocean Street - 1 min walk - 0.0 km
  • Pacific Avenue - 10 min walk - 0.9 km
  • Main Beach - 11 min walk - 1.0 km
  • Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk - 11 min walk - 1.0 km
  • Santa Cruz Wharf - 16 min walk - 1.4 km

Getting around

  • Watsonville, CA (WVI-Watsonville Municipal) - 18 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Pizza My Heart - ‬11 min walk
  • ‪Jack in the Box - ‬8 min walk
  • ‪Woodstock's Pizza Santa Cruz - ‬10 min walk
  • ‪Pacific Cookie Company - ‬10 min walk
  • ‪Five Guys Santa Cruz - ‬12 min walk

About this property

Motel Santa Cruz

Motel near Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz
There's a restaurant on site. WiFi is free in public spaces. A vending machine, multilingual staff, and laundry facilities are also featured at Motel Santa Cruz. Free self parking is available.

Smoking is allowed in designated areas at this Santa Cruz motel.

  • 1 building
  • 62 guestrooms or units
  • 3 levels
  • Dry cleaning
  • Self-service laundry
  • Front desk (limited hours)
  • Staff is multilingual
  • Front-desk safe
  • Smoking in designated areas
  • Dining venue
Motel Santa Cruz offers 62 accommodations with air conditioning. Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels.

Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access.

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Property amenities

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • A restaurant

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Grab bar near toilet
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Wheelchair accessibility
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel

Room amenities

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV with cable channels

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Private bathroom
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Towels provided

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Phone

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: midnight
Early check-in subject to availability
Early check-in is available for a fee
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM
Contactless check-out available
Late check-out subject to availability
A late check-out fee will be charged

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open daily from 9:00 AM - midnight
Front desk staffed during limited hours
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

  • Pets: USD 28.00 per pet, per night
  • Only dogs and cats are allowed
  • Service animals are exempt from fees

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
  • Cribs (infant beds) are not available.

Property payment types

Important information

Fees

Guests will be asked to pay the following charges at the property:

  • Deposit: USD 200.00 per accommodation, per stay
  • Breakage deposit: USD 00 per stay

We've listed all charges provided to us by the property.

Optional extras

The fees and deposits listed below will be charged at the time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Pet fee: USD 28.00 per pet, per night
  • Service animals are exempt from fees
  • Early check-in is available for a fee (subject to availability)
  • Late check-out is available for a fee (subject to availability)

This may not be a comprehensive list. Fees and deposits are subject to change and might not include tax.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Cashless transactions are available
Safety features at this property include a smoke detector
Charges for extra guests may apply and vary according to property policy.
A cash deposit, credit card, or debit card for incidental charges and government-issued photo identification may be required upon check-in.
Special requests are subject to availability at the time of check-in. Special requests can't be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
    This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business, or profession. This property accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. Cash is not accepted. For guests' safety, the property includes a smoke detector in each accommodation. Cashless payment methods are available for all transactions.

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Motel Santa Cruz Reviews

Reviews

5.0
Rating 10 - Excellent. 126 out of 1003 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 125 out of 1003 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 174 out of 1003 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 222 out of 1003 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 356 out of 1003 reviews

5.0/10

Cleanliness

5.8/10

Staff & service

4.6/10

Amenities

4.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Arturo

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2025

10/10 Excellent

Justin

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Octavio

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The room smell cigarett,
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

10/10 Excellent

Arthur

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

6/10 Okay

Andrea

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
It was very clean. The only thing is I kept hitting my leg every time I got out of the bed the frame was too big for the actual mattress and it was a metal frame so every time I got off the bed, I I hit my leg and ended up cutting myself twice. The mattress itself was very comfortable. Other than that. Everything was OK. The room did it job
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

8/10 Good

james

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

MICHAEL, OROVILLE

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good location, main road has restaurants across street and straight path to wharf or boardwalk. Very clean rooms. TV channels work. Shampoo provided in shower. Desk lady is highly friendly and nice, quite reasonable too. AC works. Minifridge available with microwave. Down sides: shower head is fixed not a hose, large shower is spacious sliding door though. Metal box under beds is annoyin at times if you accidently kick it getting in out of bed. Outside the railing walk ways are packed around the ceiling with huge spider webs with large spiders. If tall watch your head while getting to your room. They need to clear the webs. Other than that tho its a fantastic motel.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

2/10 Terrible

William

Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

2/10 Terrible

Byron

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
One idea is keeping your room clean because when we got to the hotel it was dirty and the sheets of the bed were dirty and torn with visible holes and the room smelled very bad.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

2/10 Terrible

Karina

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
There was lots of screaming all night! I was scared of bed bugs! There was blood on the mattress! I got out of there asap
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

4/10 Poor

Daniel

Business traveller, Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Poor
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Mayaflor

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Amenities
I requested the first floor as I have problem going up stairs . He gave us right beside a busy street and you can hear all the noises. Internet was poor. The good thing is 7eleven is right across the street and other stores and restaurants. Place is clean and will stay in this motel again
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

2/10 Terrible

Chris

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Moth eaten curtains, smashed in front door that had been repaired, and it was dirty
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Randi

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Yesenia, Bakersfield

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
The parking spaces are super small and compacted. the parking lot was always full I had to ask for permission to park in front of the lobby that was in between the entrance and other parked cars.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

4/10 Poor

Alirio J

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2025

2/10 Terrible

Gabriel

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very dirty in general dirty towels a lot of cigarette smell the sink was blocked and the room was very old
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

4/10 Poor

Geoffrey

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Avoid

I usually don’t expect much from lower cost hotels but at $230 this place felt like a $60 per night hotel. The room stunk of cigarette smoke , was not in good shape, just didn’t feel clean, noisy. I had low expectations, but this place came in well below them.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

2/10 Terrible

jorge

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

8/10 Good

Regina

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Clean room staff was really nice close to all venues
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Angela

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

6/10 Okay

Anna

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Adequate if outdated

The motel is basic and located on a noisy street--the evening we spent the night was rife with motorcyclists rev bombing. The blackout curtains weren't enough to block streetlights and nightlife revelers. Rooms could use a lot more updating. The pillows could use replacing but the mattress was pretty comfortable.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

2/10 Terrible

Barbara

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
There were no amenities - no little breakfast in the morning, no Keurig coffee machines, no toiletries, no desk or chair to sit on, an odd steel sheet surrounding the bed which made a very loud drum sound when you sat on the bed, I would never stay there again and would not recommend it to anyone. I was not able to get a return of fee on the second night due to all this and I left anyway.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025

6/10 Okay

Richard

Disliked: Staff & service

Decent place to stay

The room was small but it was pretty clean with a really hard bed and one wet towel. The only problem we had was the people in and around the hotel. It's about a 3 minute drive to the boardwalk or a 20 minute walk.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Betsabe, Redwood City

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
It was clean and respect area.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025